Mettāsutta
The Benefits of Love
The eight benefits of practicing the meditation on love.
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Paññāsutta
Wisdom
Eight conditions that lead to the arising of wisdom, its growth and perfection.
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Paṭhamaappiyasutta
Disliked (1st)
Due to eight qualities, a mendicant is displeasing to their fellow monastics, but with the opposite qualities is pleasing.
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Dutiyaappiyasutta
Disliked (2nd)
Due to eight qualities, a mendicant is displeasing to their fellow monastics, but with the opposite qualities is pleasing.
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Paṭhamalokadhammasutta
Worldly Conditions (1st)
The eight worldly conditions in brief: gain and loss, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, pleasure and pain.
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Dutiyalokadhammasutta
Worldly Conditions (2nd)
The eight worldly conditions in detail: gain and loss, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, pleasure and pain.
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Devadattavipattisutta
Devadatta’s Failure
Devadatta’s downfall was the eight worldly conditions.
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Uttaravipattisutta
Uttara on Failure
In a discourse evidently set some time after the Buddha’s passing, Venerable Uttara, staying in a distant land, teaches that a mendicant should review their own failings and those of others. Questioned by Sakka, the Lord of Gods, Uttara affirms that he learned this from the Buddha.
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Nandasutta
Nanda
The Buddha praises the grace and restraint of Venerable Nanda.
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Kāraṇḍavasutta
Trash
When a certain monk was admonished, he responded by attacking his reprovers. The Buddha tells the other monks to expel him, explaining that when such a monk lives hidden in the Saṅgha, his corruption can spread to the other monks.